Cyber Bullying

Everyday thousands of kids, teens, and adults are bullied through electronic devices, emails, text messages, social Medias, and websites. Cyber bullying is differs from other types of bullying the things posted on the web may easily spread and sometimes never be deleted. The web is on everyday twenty four hours a day seven days a week, people can be bullied even when they’re alone in their homes, and this differs from being bullied in person. The group most affected by bullying is by far teenagers, as social Medias, and texting have become more popular as more teens have gotten involved in them. Pictures can be anonymously posted on the web that may offend or embarrass someone, and can be almost impossible to track back to the person that posted it. Trying to get rid of these embarrassing pictures and comments online can be difficult to track, but can be even more difficult to delete as well, or taken back. The effects of bullying can cause harmful choices by teens and can potentially drive them to drugs, alcohol, and in extreme cases suicide. Although cyber bullying can be difficult to erase and stop, there’s ways that this problem can be reduced; by easily monitoring what sites kids or teens visit, and the activities that they take in during their online usage.

According to national organizations trying to prevent bullying such as the School Crime Supplement, say that 6% of students in grades 6-12 experience cyber bullying. Another organization which also has the same function is Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey which stated that 16% of high school students from the grades 9-12 were electronically bullied in the past year. Although the research for cyber bullying can be difficult to capture, many corporations are trying ...

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...ing bullied, or if they are being bullied themselves. Many corporations have dedicated a lot of time to inform parents of the effects of cyberbullying and of the dangers; this has had a positive result in setting an awareness on this very serious issue. These corporations are also teaching parents how to monitor what their kids are doing when they go online, and when they take part in social Media sites. Social Medias aren’t the problem as they can also bring kids and friends together in a very friendly and safe collaborative way, but the problem sets in the lack of awareness in teaching kids the true danger of saying something or putting someone down over the Web. Setting awareness on cyberbullying has definitely reduced it, but only we can really have an impact in informing others about the dangers of cyber bullying and how it can have a negative effect on others.